US House votes to hold billionaire Epstein associate Leon Black in contempt

🔮 In a statement after the House voted to hold Black in contempt of Congress, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said: "No one is above the law." "We will continue to seek transparency for the American people and justice for survivors."

🔮 - Published An ex-police sergeant who asked to share a female suspect's sex video with "the lads from footy" has been jailed for four years. Former Cambridgeshire Police officer Paul Street, 41, engaged in "salacious gossip" with former PC Josh Williams after he found intimate pictures and footage on the woman's personal phone. The Old Bailey heard how Street, of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, created a "toxic" WhatsApp culture at work.

🔮 - Published The new state pension is expected to rise by £488 a year, as a result of the triple lock arrangement.

🔮 Ministers had therefore decided that the government would plan its own formal acquisition of the business, he explained.

🔮 Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic words for oyster or oysters – eisir, eisirein and eisirean – and oyster habitats like sandy banks or tidal causeways in place names around Scotland's coast. They then found an oyster bed that had not been previously documented, as well as confirming oysters could have been present at other sites on Mull and Islay.

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🔮 Your prepared statement sought to shift blame anywhere but yourself." Judge Edmunds previously told the court the law did not allow him to add any more time to the term Shepherd was already serving, and his most recent sentence would be served concurrently to his current sentence. He is due to be released in January 2029.

🔮 The Department of Health has previously said it will continue to support hospices.

🔮 The workers, who are employed by sub-contractor Idverde, will strike over a proposed pay rise of 70p an hour for skilled gardeners and team leaders, which GMB union said was "an insult".

🔮 The judge said Gartshore would have to live for the rest of her life knowing she was responsible for her daughter's death.